Pioneers
Welcome to our Pioneers series dedicated to the settlers of Western Australia. The caches are located on a rarely used bike track between Henderson and Naval Base passing close to Mt Brown. The track is a bitumen surface and provides about 5 kms of smooth riding and is the only way to complete this series.
All caches are with 15 metres of the track and no bush bashing is required. Cache range from a small sisteema containers and some tricky camoed nanos, all camoed containers are in plain sight from at least one direction!
Warning!!
Some of the Pioneer caches are near restricted areas due to unexploded ordinance (artillery shells etc...), we have placed these caches in areas outside the warning areas.
***** Please don't try to come across by road to individual caches for your own safety. *****
Alexander Morrison
(15 March 1849 – 7 December 1913) was the first Government Botanist of Western Australia.
Born in Western Dalmeny, Scotland, he began a Medicine degree at Edinborough, but suffered from ill health, prompting him to break his studies and visit Australia. He spent two years in Melbourne before returning to Edinburgh to complete his degree. He then undertook post-graduate studies at Glasgow, Wurzburg and Vienna.
He returned to Australia in 1877 as a medical officer on a migrant ship. He practiced medicine in Melbourne for 15 years, but again ill health prompted him to travel. He visited the South Seas and spend some time living in the New Hebrides, where he collected plants.
After returning to Australia, he was appointed the first Government Botanist of Western Australia, holding the position from 1897 to 1906. He produced few papers during this time, but these were considered high quality work.